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This chapter is a time skip of 7 years total.
Chapter 3
Academy and Team Formations
Three students walked into the Academy doors. One student wore a red short and black shorts. His name was Naruto Uzumaki. On his left was his friend. She wore a white hooded jacket and a purple shirt underneath it. She had black pants on. Her name was Hinata Hyuuga. On Naruto's right was his other friend. He wore a black shirt with a high collar. On the back was an Uchiha symbol. He wore white shorts. His name was Sasuke Uchiha. These three people were best friends ever since they were five years old. Now it was time to enter the Academy and become ninjas.
Naruto has been training with Kakashi Hatake for the past three years when the ANBU captain was not on missions. About a month after they started training, Sasuke and Hinata joined the training program. The training program was very long and harsh. Kakashi made the trio do ANBU excersises, which consisted of 50 laps around the leaf village, 1000 push ups, and sparing. The trio had to fight one on one with Kakashi and had to land at least 10 hits on him. Eventually the trio did it and Kakashi made it even more intense. Naruto shuddered how that training was. It payed off though.
Naruto looked at a paper attached to the doors. The paper showed the classes and the people in the class. Naruto found his name. He also found Sasuke and Hinata's.
"Guys," Naruto said, "We are in the same class. Room 1B"
Smiles appeared on all of their faces.
"Lets go." Sasuke suggested.
All three of them nodded and headed to their room. It was on the first floor. They slowly opened the door and stepped into the room. Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata looked around to find anyone they knew. They found a few people like Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, Shino, Kiba, etc. They found three seats and sat down waiting for their teacher. They talked about what it would be like being in the same team. The discussion soon stopped when two men walked into the classroom. One of the men and a scar running across his nose. The other one had white hair.
"Hello class, my name is Iruka Umino," the one with the scar said, "This is Mizuki," Iruka pointed to the man on his left, "We will be your teachers for the next four years. Any questions?"
No one raised their hand. All of the students wanted to hurry up and begin their life at the Academy.
"Ok now," Iruka said, "Does anyone know any jutsus?"
Four hands shot up. The most surprisingly one was Naruto Uzumaki. Iruka always heard about Naruto. He was known throughout Konoha as the 'Number One Knuckle Head of Konoha.' (A/N: I forgot).
"Let's go outside to check it out." Iruka said.
Soon all of the students crowded outside. Everyone was murmuring about Naruto. Naruto was suppose to be the dead last. That was all the teachers could say about him. That was all the parents could say about him too. That and 'demon'.
"Sasuke Uchiha, you go first." Iruka stated.
Sasuke walked up a few feet behind a tree. He sighed and closed his eyes to focus. Suddenly his eyes shot open and he started to weave threw signs.
"Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!"
Sasuke shot out a huge fire ball out. The fire ball raced to the tree and the flames engulfed it. Sasuke put his hands in his pockets and went back to Naruto and Hinata. Immediately, the Sasuke Fan Club formed and quickly made a hug banner saying: WE LOVE YOU SASUKE-KUN!
"Nice job Sasuke." Naruto said as he high five him.
"Good job Sasuke." Hinata congratulated.
"Up next Hinata Hyuuga."
Hinata walked up to another tree and mimicked Sasuke's action. She wove threw a set of hand signs and yelled out:
"Water Style: Water Blast!"
The water on a near by river rose up. On Hinata's command, the water blasted toward the tree, destroying it completely.
"Very impressive." Mizuki said.
"Up next Shikamaru Nara."
"Troublesome..." Shikamaru muttered.
Shikamaru stood in front of Iruka and muttered:
"Shadow Possession Jutsu."
From where Shikamaru stood, a shadow started to creep toward Iruka. Once the shadow connected to Iruka, Iruka started to slouch like Shikamaru.
"You can let go now Shikamaru." Iruka commanded. Shikamaru did as was told and went back to the line. Once he got back to the line, he fell down on his back and went to sleep.
"Finally Naruto Uzumaki." Iruka said, ignoring Shikamaru.
Naruto stood in front of a tree. Naruto closed his eyes to focus. His hands started to weave threw hand signs and his eyes were still closed. His eyes finally opened up and he yelled out:
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!"
A violent gust of wind blasted to Naruto. The wind gave Naruto multiples scratches on his back since the wind was coming. The wind completely knocked over three trees.
Everyone's eyes were wide except Sasuke and Hinata's. Shikamaru was well, being Shikamaru. Iruka and Mizuki would have been flying if they haven't applied chakra to their feet. They had to catch the kids from flying all over the place. Half of the girls from the Sasuke Fan Club quickly formed a Naruto Fan Club, much to Hinata's dissapointment. They made a banner that said: YOU ARE WAY BETTER THAN SASUKE!"
"Looks like I am better than you Sasuke-teme." Naruto joked. The two of them always said bad words to each other, but they knew it was just a joke. They were best friends forever.
"Hn." Sasuke said and smirked.
"Ummm nice job Naruto," Iruka said as everyone got settled down, "Lets get back to the classroom."
Everyone did as instructed, and followed Iruka. Some of the girls followed Naruto and Sasuke. The two boys sighed. This was going to be a long four years. Everyone except Mizuki went back to the classroom.
"This will be harder than I thought." Mizuki thought. He quickly followed Iruka to the classroom.
In a couple of hours, the class ended. They talked about taijutsu and ninjutsu mostly. About half way of the class, a lady came in and told the girls to follow her. Iruka explained to the guys that the girls will be doing flower arranging to help blend in. They also talked about the ninja world. Like where the countries are, the countries reputation, etc.
Naruto and Sasuke decided to go train in the forest. Hinata also accepted, wanting to get away from her father. She was strong, but her father didn't think she was strong enough. She was second place in the class and her father didn't think that was enough. Neji was rookie of the year, so Hiashi wanted Hinata to be the rookie of the year too.
In a few minutes the trio ended up at the forest. The forest consisted of a lake, river, practice dummies, and some trees. Naruto and Sasuke and Hinata noticed people following them. All three of them knew that fan girls were watching them, and Hinata became mad. She didn't do anything though. Hinata had her Byakugan, so she could tell where they were. The trio decided to just ignore them and they started to train.
"Oi Sasuke," Naruto said, "Let's work our combo."
"Sure." Sasuke replied.
Naruto and Sasuke were working on a combo that can kill around 20 enemies. They have been working on this combo for about a month now and they think they can master it today. Naruto and Hinata also made a combo too. Sasuke and Hinata haven't made a combo, because the water will extinguish the fire.
Naruto created 30 clones. The clones piled up together. Naruto and Sasuke stood a few yards away from them because the attacks were mid-range. Naruto started to create some hand signs. He ended on the Ram sign. Naruto stuck out his two palms and yelled out:
"Wind Style: Divine Down Current!"
A vortex of wind struck out of Naruto's palms and started to make the clones float and fly back. The clones crashed against a tree, but surprisingly they didn't poof away. Naruto had trained extra hard on his clones so that they didn't poof away easily. They could withstand a few hits now. Sasuke created hand signs and ended on Tiger. His set a ring around his mouth and yelled out:
"Fire Style: Running Fire!"
A stream of fire shot of his mouth, and started to surround the clones. The fire mixed in with the wind, creating a massive inferno. The clones poofed away leaving only 2 clones. Naruto quickly dispelled the clones and looked at Sasuke.
"Looks like we did it Sasuke-teme." Naruto said with a smile.
"Looks like it dope." Sasuke replied.
"Hinata-Chan," Naruto asked, "Let's work on our combo."
"Ok." Hinata confirmed.
Naruto, again, created 30 clones. Naruto and Hinata stood a few yards away from the clones. Naruto quickly formed hand seals and yelled out:
"Wind Style: Wind Tornadoes!"
Naruto stuck out his palms and multiple tornadoes started to form. This jutsu was kind of like Divine Down Current, except this jutsu made much more tornadoes, but the tornadoes were slightly weaker. The wind tornadoe was blowing the trio's hair. Hinata quickly formed some hand signs and yelled out:
"Water Style: Water Blasts!"
From the near by river and lake, water started to rise up. Hinata commanded them to go and hit the tornadoes. Once the water hit the tornadoes, water started to spray around like a sprinkler. The water hit the clones and the clones were set flying to the trees. The clones poofed away. The water tornado soon disappeared.
"We only can hold it for about 2 minutes. That should be enough to beat the enemies." Naruto stated.
"Yeah." Hinata replied while blushing.
Sasuke noticed that blush and smirked. Everyone knew about Hinata's crush on Naruto, except Naruto himself. He was to dense to figure it out. Sasuke always wanted to pair them up, but he decided it would be to un-Uchiha like.
"Hinata-Chan, your red. You ok?" Naruto asked. Naruto put his hand on Hinata's forehead making the blush increase.
"H-Hai." Hinata said and she turned away.
"You guys want to train more? I got to work on fighting with my scythe." Naruto said.
"Nah, I am going to train more on my fire jutsus." Sasuke said. He pulled out about 10 scrolls from his pocket.
"I a-am going to do t-the same for my water j-jutsus." Hinata stuttered. Hinata usually doesn't stutter, but Naruto actually touched her.
The three of them nodded to each other and separated a lot of yards from each other. Naruto created about 150 clones. The real Naruto commanded them to separate into three groups of fifty. One group worked on the scythe, the other group worked on ninjutsu, and the other group worked on taijutsu. The clones would disperse in one hour. Naruto ran to his apartment, leaving the clones alone. First Naruto went to get some ramen. In about one hour, Naruto got to his apartment, went to his bed, and went unconscious because of all the clones memory.
Time skip four years
Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata walked inside the Academy building. Today was the day to see if your ready to become a ninja. Naruto and Sasuke were tied in first place in the class. Hinata was second. It was acceptable because Naruto and Sasuke like competing with each other in training. They push each other to their limits. Hinata doesn't often train with them because of her father. Her father abuses her instead of training her. This made Naruto and Sasuke pissed off. They wanted to practically rip off the balls of the Hyuuga head. If he had any.
The three friends walked inside the classroom to find everyone actually quiet for a first time. Everyone was quiet because it was time to do the test. The test made everyone very nervous. Only a few people were confident. Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata. That's it. The trio walked up the stairs and sat down enjoying the quiet. Eventually, the two chuunin instructors came into the room, noticing the class being very quiet.
"Iruka, I think we are in a genjutsu. Our class is actually quiet." Mizuki said.
"Ha." Iruka laughed. Iruka's laugh turned into a dead serious face. The made everyone even more nervous.
"The first part of the test is a written exam. The second part is the jutsu test. We will start right now. Put all of your effort into this test." Iruka said. Iruka got a pile of papers and handed half of the papers to Mizuki. The two instructors handed the papers to the students. The papers startled the students because it was so thick. The students scanned threw the test.
"Done." Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata said at the same time. It hasn't even been 5 minutes yet! They were done already? They ignored the shocked faces of the other students. Even Mizuki and Iruka were stunned when they handed the paper. The two men graded the test and saw that it was a hundred percent.
"Damn." Iruka and Mizuki thought.
One hour later all the students finished. Iruka and Mizuki immediately went to the jutsu portion of the test. One by one, students walked out with pride. Sometimes the students came back inside the classroom sad. Eventually it was Sasuke's turn.
"Good luck teme." Naruto said.
"Good luck Sasuke." Hinata said too.
Sasuke smirked. He went outside and went back inside with a shiny new headband on his forehead.
"Gratz." Naruto and Hinata said.
"Thanks."
Up next was Hinata. The same thing happened. Hinata came in with a headband around her neck and a smile on her face. Naruto jumped up and hugged her making Hinata blush. He whispered congratz.
"Don't faint, don't faint." Hinata thought repeatedly.
"Naruto Uzumaki." Iruka called out.
"Wish me luck." Naruto said as he walked out.
"Ok Naruto," Iruka started to stat, "Clone and Transform please."
Naruto made the hand sign for the transformation jutsu and changed into his dad, the fourth Hokage. If only Naruto knew that his dad was the fourth. His life would have changed so much. Naruto, instead of doing a clone jutsu, made 100 kage bunshin pop up, scaring all the teachers in the Academy.
"How did you learn the Kage Bunshin!" Iruka yelled out like a question.
"Library. I couldn't do the normal bunshins because of my massive chakra reserve." Naruto stated in a matter of fact tone.
"You pass!" Iruka said as he gave Naruto his head band. Naruto grinned. He walked inside with his headband strapped to his forehead.
"Congratulations Naruto-kun." Hinata congratulated.
"Gratz dobe." Sasuke said and smirked.
Naruto stuck out his tongue and made a raspberry (A/N: I think that is what it's called).
In about 20 minutes, all the students were done taking the jutsu test. Half of the class was sad and the other half was happy. They literally made sides. On one side of the classroom was graduates, while on the other side was failers. Iruka and Mizuki came inside.
"Well, since Hokage-Sama already made the team formations, me and Mizuki will call them out right now." Iruka stated. This statement made the breaths of the graduates stop. They were going to learn their teams right now!
"Ok, here are the teams." Iruka said as he flipped threw the papers on his clipboard. Team one will be... Iruka kept saying the teams until he called Naruto out.
"Team seven will be consisted of, Naruto Uzumaki."
Naruto's breath stopped.
"Sasuke Uchiha."
A smirked formed on both of the guys faces. Their heart skipped a beat once Iruka recited the next name. They couldn't believe this was happening!
"And Sakura Haruno."
Silence.
"WHAT?" Naruto and Sasuke yelled out at the same time. "WHY?"
"The teams will be unbalanced. The team shall consist of the strongest, smartest, and the weakest. Sakura is the weak and the smart and you guys are the strongest. If Hinata was in your team, team seven will be to overpowering." Iruka said.
"Me, Sasuke, and Hinata have the best teamwork ever! Doesn't that count?" Naruto yelled. Sasuke nodded in agreement.
"Sorry guys. Just got to deal with it."
While Iruka was talking to Naruto and Sasuke, Hinata was crying. She had so many tears that it can be formed into a river. Even though Iruka already explained why they weren't on the same teams, she was still wondering why. All three of them worked very well together. Their teamwork was flawless! Naruto even said so! Naruto saw Hinata crying, and came over to her. He put his arm around her, and she put her head on Naruto's shoulder, crying her heart out. Naruto had a few tears. Even Sasuke had tears. Being an Uchiha, he had to control his emotions. Right now he was failing. Iruka looked at the trio and sighed. He practically knew that this was going to happen. He looked at his clipboard and began reciting the teams again.
"Team eight will be Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame."
None of the three said anything.
"Team ten will be Ino Yamanaka, Choji Akimichi, and Shikamaru Nara."
None of the three said anything. Iruka recited all of the teams.
"Your squad leader will be here in 20 minutes. Just stay here." Iruka and Mizuki left the room, leaving the special trio to mourn. All of the class didn't say anything. Everyone knew how Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata were best friends. Everyone knew the teamwork was the best. The class decided to stay silent and wait for their teachers. Eventually Hinata's sensei was here.
"Team eight? I am Kurenai Yuhi, please follow me." Kurenai said. She noticed the girl crying and decided to talk to her later about what happened.
Shino and Kiba rose up from the seats and followed Kurenai.
"You got to go Hinata-chan..." Naruto cried. This was heart-breaking.
"H-hai." Hinata said as she rose up. When Naruto told her something to do she will do it.
"Good bye Hinata-chan." Naruto said as he hugged her. Hinata didn't blush. She was to sad to. Surprisingly, Sasuke hugged her too. He whispered see you later.
"Let's hang out later okay?" Naruto asked.
Hinata simply nodded her head and she left along with her team. Naruto and Sasuke went back to their seat and sat down saying nothing.
Meanwhile, Sakura Haruno was feeling very left out. Her team didn't want her. Sakura was one of the girls that was still in the Sasuke Fan Club. For once it her life she was not annoying Sasuke. She felt like they needed their own time and decided to not saying anything.
Two hours passed and no one said one thing. Finally, a masked wearing cyclops ninja came threw the door. That ninja was a former ANBU captain and was named Kakashi Hatake. Kakashi was very surprised. Usually when he was late, the team would yelled at him.
"Yo Naruto and Sasuke." Kakashi said and waved.
"Hey..." they both muttered.
Kakashi knew Hinata was not on their team. He had to debate on which team Hinata should be on. He sighed as he remembered the flashback.
Flashback
All of the jounin were here gathered in the Hokage's office. All of the jounin knew why they were here. They were here to pick out some Genin teams. The Jounin were all talking about what teams they will be assigned too. The Hokage walked in and everyone grew silent. Sarutobi sat down in his chair and looked at the Jounin.
"You all know why you were called here, so," Sarutobi stated, "Does anyone want a specific team?"
A red eyed woman stepped up and said, "I would like Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame. I would like too form a tracking and location team."
Kakashi's eyes widened. He couldn't let the trio be separated! He had to do something!
"Wait!" Kakashi yelled out. "I want Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Hinata Hyuuga!"
"Kakashi," Sarutobi said, "Kurenai's team is perfect. Hinata the power, Kiba the fail, and Shino the smart. If you put Hinata on Naruto's and Sasuke's team, that team will be to overpowering. I would recommend Sakura Haruno. She is a smart and a weak combined."
"She is just another crazy fan girl! She will just make us slow down! Sakura has never even trained with us! Come on Hokage-Sama! The trio will be crushed!" Kakashi debated.
"The answer is a final no Kakashi. Hinata Hyuuga will be placed in Kurenai's team. Sakura Haruno will be on your team."
Kakashi sighed. He knew he couldn't argue against the Hokage. Kakashi went over to the wall and put his back on it.
Flashback End
"I am your sensei, Hatake Kakashi. Follow me to the roof top." Kakashi said. He was only looking at Sakura. Sakura will be the only one that didn't know what to do. Sakura stood up and followed Kakashi. Naruto and Sasuke hanged back for a few minutes. The two of them already knew where to go. After about 10 minutes they both left.
~End
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